[P148]09/17 Still-life with Gas Bottle Painting

This is one in a series of singular ordinary objects painted from direct observation (i.e. not using any photographic reference material), working only with natural daylight in my studio. My concern is with the act of painting itself, painting as a tactile, visible, ancient and direct expression of visual intelligence. In recent years the subject/object dichotomy, that seems to be so much part of the still-life tradition, has become increasingly irrelevant to me. For me, the still-life has become a means or a medium to engage with painting beyond language and words.